Saturday, January 22, 2005
Do Not Trust Flatterers
Still thinking of Lear’s relationship with Goneril and Regan, it reminds me of the fable “The Fox and The Crow”. It is a popular story among the young children. I am sure all of you are familiar with the story. It is about the cunning fox saw the crow sitting on a tree. It had a piece of meat in its mouth. The fox wanted to eat the meat and tried to get it from the crow. So it began to praise the crow for having a sweet voice and wanted to hear it sing a song. The crow was flattered by its words, believed it and so it sang. Once the crow opened the mouth to sing, the meat fell and the fox snatched it and ran away.
The moral of the story is do not trust flatterers. I think if Lear has read this story before, he would not be easily deceived by his daughters’ flattery words. He would not act like the crow who loves flattery words but pays a price by losing its meat. However, Lear loses more than what the crow loses. He loses the whole kingdom, his position and authority as a king and a father. He has to pay a great price for favouring flattery words.
As for me, I think the flatterers today we need to be aware are the salesmen and insurance agents. I once fell into the trap of an insurance agent. He flattered me so much that I was moved to sign an insurance with a premium of RM550 per month! Fortunately, thanks to the offering of this PKPG course, I stopped paying for the insurance as I couldn’t afford it. Though I had paid it for almost a year that I had lost RM6600, I feel my load is lighter now and free from debts. Yes, do not trust flatterers.
The moral of the story is do not trust flatterers. I think if Lear has read this story before, he would not be easily deceived by his daughters’ flattery words. He would not act like the crow who loves flattery words but pays a price by losing its meat. However, Lear loses more than what the crow loses. He loses the whole kingdom, his position and authority as a king and a father. He has to pay a great price for favouring flattery words.
As for me, I think the flatterers today we need to be aware are the salesmen and insurance agents. I once fell into the trap of an insurance agent. He flattered me so much that I was moved to sign an insurance with a premium of RM550 per month! Fortunately, thanks to the offering of this PKPG course, I stopped paying for the insurance as I couldn’t afford it. Though I had paid it for almost a year that I had lost RM6600, I feel my load is lighter now and free from debts. Yes, do not trust flatterers.
# posted by Dr. Yee Bee Choo @ 9:00 AM 
